Definition of Humorous

Humorous

Moist; humid; watery.

Subject to be governed by humor or caprice; irregular; capricious; whimsical.

Full of humor; jocular; exciting laughter; playful; as, a humorous story or author; a humorous aspect.

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Humorous Quotations

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.
Steve Jobs

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.
Jerome K. Jerome

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
W. Somerset Maugham

Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.
Sergio Aragones

It's a humorous statement that doesn't mean anything. You can't lie to God - it's ridiculous.
Jimmy Swaggart

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.
Piers Anthony

Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous.
George Thorogood

While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.
Ann Beattie

There's a few tunes of mine that don't have jokes, but most of them have a joke and they have a humorous point of view somewhere.
Mose Allison

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
Flip Wilson

If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.
Alan Thicke

The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.
Mike Figgis

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.
Max Cannon

But when they offered this little situation for me to do this voice in this special segment, I found it so incredibly humorous that I said yes, and I enjoyed it. It was fun.
Werner Klemperer

I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I've always had a very happy experience writing for them.
Toby Young

I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
Ted Lange

I wanted to do an hour-long show, and I wanted to something that was dramatic and sometimes funny and humorous, as well. I'm just delighted to have this opportunity to be a part of this project.
Ron Glass

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.
David Riesman

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.
Herbert Beerbohm Tree

A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
Percy Ross

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
Constance Rourke

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Humorous Translations

humorous in Dutch is humoristisch
humorous in French is humoriste
humorous in German is humoristisch, humorvoll
humorous in Italian is umoristico
humorous in Norwegian is humoristisk, morsom
humorous in Swedish is humoristisk

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